Editing Predator Tank (section)

=== {{anchor|Executioner}}Executioner Pattern Predator ===
[[File:99590101249_PredatorExecutionerMR360.jpg|300px|right|thumb|And you thought the Leman Russ Executioner was bad...]]

Much like the [[Leman Russ Executioner]], this variant mounts a [[Plasma Destroyer]], basically a [[Plasma Cannon]] that fires in bursts, with the standard twin [[Heavy Bolter]] sponsons. More exotic variants swap out the Plasma Destroyer for a [[Heavy Conversion Beamer]] instead, granting them superior long-range firepower at the cost of an inability to fire while moving and greatly weakened attack capability at close range. It was known that each and every Deimos Predator was Artificer-crafted by the finest machine-wrights of the great forge-complexes of Mars and that the Predator Executioner just added several more layers of complexity in the design frame. Even in the [[Great Crusade]] these babies were a tough bitch to construct.

The Deimos Predator Executioner, as with all Predator tanks, can be armed with up to two sponson-mounted weapons including the aforementioned [[Heavy Bolter]]s, [[Heavy Flamer]]s, or [[Lascannon]]s. The tank can be equipped with a variety of Pintle-mounted weaponry, including a [[Combi-Bolter]] or other [[Combi-weapon]], a [[Heavy Flamer]], a [[Heavy Bolter]], or a [[Havoc Missile Launcher]]. The vehicle can also be outfitted with a [[Hunter-Killer Missile|Hunter-Killer Missile Launcher]], a dozer blade, an auxiliary drive system, extra armour plating, armoured ceramite plating, or an advanced Machine Spirit (Artificial Intelligence). All Deimos Predator Executioners are equipped with smoke launchers and a searchlight.

As with [[Mechanicus]] [[Fail|incompetence]], the Deimos Predator Executioner is no longer manufactured on a large scale, or at all, for the Chapters of the Space Marines as the Mars Pattern Predator is now used almost exclusively by the Adeptus Astartes. As Plasma Weapons technology has been nearly lost to the Imperium in the late 41st Millennium, the Predator Executioner's main weapon, the Plasma Destroyer, is extremely rare and difficult to replace.

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